Browsing: Baking Tips

It’s best to transfer both loose tea and tea bags from a cardboard or paper packet or tub into an…

Here are some of the best kept secrets to better baking.

Two tips on using eggs in your baking from The Village Kitchen are – When making your cake, leave the…

When baking shortbread cookies, substitute half of your plain flour with cornflour. It gives them a really nice taste. Before…

When using two fillings (jam and cream), spread each one on a different half of the cake and then sandwich…

For the flakiest upper pie crust, brush the top lightly with cold water before baking. To avoid your pie crust…

If you plan to store it for a long period of time, wrap the cake in brandy or wine-soaked towels,…

To test whether old baking powder is still got some oomph in it, mix 2 tsp of it with 200ml…

Two great tips to help you make the best apple pie from The Village Kitchen are – When making an…

Two tips on using milk in baking from The Village Kitchen… Chilled evaporated milk, whipped until fluffy, can be used…

I have just published my book ‘A Little Book on Tea Cake & Chocolate’, which would make a great gift for…

Before icing a cake, sprinkle the top with some flour, this will stop the icing from running down over the…

We had a recent one week’s cruise to Bruges in Brussels, Copenhagen and Skagen in Denmark and Oslo in Sweden.…

5 Tips on using the right type of sugar in your baking. With such a choice of sugars, it’s difficult…